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Voorhees Teenager Advocates For The
Blind During Blindness Awareness Month
October 10, 2011 5:07 AM
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Awareness Month, and no one knows that
better than the 14-year-old Voorhees boy that
created the day and spread the word.
Rocco Fiorentino launched Blindness
Awareness Month in 2009. He says it was a
modest start.
“In 2009, we started with three states and that
was New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Rocco Fiorentino, now 14, founded Blindness Awareness
Month in 2009.
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We’re now up to 40. How? I don’t know. I don’t
know how it’s grown to that number, but I’ve just
been calling and writing letters.”
Fiorentino was born premature and blind, with a five-percent chance
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Today, he is an accomplished pianist, drummer, and singer — and in
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“It’s more of education. It costs $30,000 to train a guide dog for
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Fiorentino
a book into Braille.”
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someone who is blind. Or
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New Jersey.
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